This week has been a difficult day for him SpaceX as the test for the SN9 rocket on Tuesday ended with a bang with the rocket landing not going as expected.
However, this did not happen SpaceX lost hope and on Thursday launched the Falcon 9 rocket into space, to use Starlink satellites.
Trevor Mahlman
As the rocket flew into space, a physiologist caught the Hawk 9 rocket passing the orbit of the moon with the moon in the background in a rather beautiful and majestic video.
The video was captured by one Trevor Mahlmann, who managed to point his camera at a right angle, catching the giant 207-foot rocket. The video also shows the long stream of fire leaving a trail as the rocket explodes swiftly towards its destination.
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More than 1,000 satellites in space
Falcon 9 was on a mission – Starlink-18 – to add an additional 60 Starlink satellites to the constellation, bringing the total number to 1,095.
In a conversation by Daily Mail, Mahlman revealed that he used a Canon EOS R5 camera while building Merrit Island as the perfect location for this exciting video. Merrit Island is about 17.9 miles from the Kennedy Space Center – the starting point for Falcon 9.
He revealed how he had initially planned to shoot the Falcon 9 but it was not planned at all, in fact, it was more of a last minute decision as he had just come home after for him to see the SN9 rocket launch SpaceX’s Boca Chica, Texas.
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Unlike the SN9, however, the rocket landed successfully as well, on the drone ship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ waiting for it at Port Canaveral in Florida.
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While Starlink 18 went off the road last night, Starlink 17 was expected to go Monday, but was scrapped due to bad weather. By the way, SpaceX felt the need for more pre-flight inspections.
Check out the video below: